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EPISODE 6 : BACK TO THE FUTURE : REVISIT CHELSEA SEASON 2000 2001 ( FINAL GLORY PRE ROMAN ERA ! )

SYNOPSIS OF THE YEAR 2000 2001

ABOUT CHELSEA HISTORY

the 2000 2001 season

CHELSEA 2000/01

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( FINAL TASTE OF GLORY PRE ROMAN )

manager : Gianluca Vialli

(until 12 September 2000)

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Claudio Ranieri

(from 18 September 2000)

Achievement :

FA Premier League NO. 6

FA Cup Fifth round

League Cup Third round

FA Charity Shield Winners

UEFA Cup First round

FA Charity Shield: 2000 | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club

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2000 FA Charity Shield - Wikipedia

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LINE UP CHARITY SHIELD 2000

NEW SIGNINGS/FACE :

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9 CF Netherlands Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Spain Atlético Madrid £15,000,000[5] 31 May 2000
22 CF Iceland Eiður Guðjohnsen England Bolton Wanderers £4,000,000[6] 19 June 2000
12 MF Croatia Mario Stanić Italy Parma £5,600,000[7] 28 June 2000
23 GK Italy Carlo Cudicini Italy Castel di Sangro Free 3 July 2000
7 DF Netherlands Winston Bogarde Spain Barcelona Free[8] 31 August 2000
10 MF Serbia and Montenegro Slaviša Jokanović Spain Deportivo £1,700,000[9] 10 October 2000
30 MF Denmark Jesper Grønkjær Netherlands Ajax £7,800,000[10] 29 December 2000
31 GK Australia Mark Bosnich England Manchester United Free[11] 18 January 2001




DEPARTURES :

9 FW England Chris Sutton Scotland Celtic £6,000,000 10 July 2000[12]
7 MF France Didier Deschamps Spain Valencia £2,300,000[13] 28 July 2000
19 FW Norway Tore Andre Flo Scotland Rangers £12,000,000[14] 23 November 2000

Christian Panucci(on loan from Internazionale)

DFJes Høgh (retired)



  • Total spending: Decrease £34,100,000

Top goalscorer

League:
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (23)
All:
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (26)

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All:
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (26) gol
Eiður Guðjohnsen 13 gol

GUS POYET 12 gol

GIANFRANCO ZOLA 12 gol


CLUB KIT : UMBRO

MAIN SPONSORS : AUTOGLASS

- season 2000/2001 started with a shock sacking of Chelsea's most successful manager in club history, Gianluca Vialli, after just 3 seasons in charge, Ken Bates the club owner decided to sack Vialli due to poor form in the league ( 1 lost 3 draws ) after opening the season with 2 victory . Vialli had just won his 5th major cup/honours in 3 seasons with the club.

(** it looks like this sacking trend had begun since pre Abramovich era )

- Vialli was replaced by Claudio Ranieri who previously managed Atletico Madrid

Vialli's final gift to fans was the Charity Shield trophy by defeating Man United 2-0 , and this ultimately Chelsea's final trophy before 2005 title wins ! ( 5 years of drought ) , Vialli also redeemed himself in transfer when he managed to sign 2 top striker , Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Eiður Guðjohnsen after his previous 2 signings was unsuccessful due to back luck ( Casiraghi's career ending injury after 10 games ) and flop ( Sutton )

first ix

- Carlo Cudicini ( GK )

- Mario Melchiot ( RB ) , Frank LeBoeuf ( CB ), Marcel Desailly ( CB ), Celestine Babayaro (LB )

, Dennis Wise ( MID ) , Gustavo Poyet ( MID )

Gianfranco Zola ( Attack Mid ), Samuele Dalla Bona

- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink( Striker ) , Eiður Guðjohnsen

- Subs : Christian Panucci , Jody Morris, Celestine Babayaro , Graeme Le Saux, Roberto Di Matteo

John Terry , Jesper Grønkjær

key player 1999/2000

- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink , Eiður Guðjohnsen, GUS POYET , GIANFRANCO ZOLA

,NOTES :

- Chelsea's new Fantastic 4 this season contributed as major source of goals . Hasselbaink started his season with a bang with 26 goals , followed by Gudjohnsen with 13 goals, Zola and Poyet too scored 12 goals themselves ! this has healed the pain of 2 failure signings in the last 2 years to find a prolific strikers !

- However, the victims of the newfounded strike force was Tore Andre Flo. Flo who was our own top goalscorers last season with 19 goals was ultimately offloaded by Ranieri . ( Flo finished with double figures in every 3 seasons at the bridge ! ), eventhough he mostly was used as an impact subs by Vialli and Ranieri !

- this was a breakthrough season for John Terry who made 26 appearances as a starter eventhough mostly was used as a 3rd choice center backs after Desailly and Le Boeuf.

Samuele Dalla Bona another academy boy also made 32 appearances this season


NEW SIGNINGS

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink interview: Dutchman on former club Chelsea

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1) Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

FROM Atlético Madrid £15,000,000

( STAR PROLIFIC STRIKER )

2000 - 2004

- joined at peak years, 28 from Atletico Madrid ( seemed we had a good success with strikers from Atletico, but not after transit at Merseyside :P )

- and Hasselbaink proved to be the most successful and the best striker we had in the 1990-s and early 2000-s, Jimmy scored 26, 29 , 15 and 17 goals in 4 seasons with us.is he the most prolific striker in our history ??

- Jimmy was our record signing at that time, his £15 millions transfer fee was Chelsea and Premier League's record at that time eclipsing fee spent on Chris Sutton previous summer.

- Jimmy scored on his debut when we beat Man United 2-0 at 2000 CHARITY SHIELD

- Hasselbaink also won PL golden boot on his debut season with 23 goals and on his 2nd season, he just missed golden boot by a single goal to Thierry Henry ( Jimmy scored 29 goals that season )

- On his last season with us, Jimmy still ended up as our Top Goalscorer of the season with 17 goals eventhough he shared more game time with Adrian Mutu and Hernan Crespo who themselves an opening gift by Roman. Jimmy scored a hattrick against Wolves at the age of 32 ( remember Tammy 's hattrick this season anyone ?? )

- style of play : quick sprinter and had a powerful shot, able to shoot with his left-foot despite being primarily right-footed, Tom Sheen, sports reporter for The Independent and Chelsea supporter, wrote that "[Hasselbaink] possessed one of the best strikes ever seen at Stamford Bridge, was an expert free-kick taker, great with both feet and decent in the air"

- in total, Jimmy scored 87 goals in just 177 games for Chelsea in 4 seasons ( 1 in 2 games goal ratio )

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2) Eiður Guðjohnsen

from Bolton Wanderers £4,000,000

( PERFECT 2nd STRIKER )

2000-2006

- signed from Bolton at young age ( 22 ) in a similar window with Hasselbaink by Vialli

- however, he was used mostly as an impact player from the bench on his 1 st season but still ended with 13 goals.

- his 2nd season was the most prolific, together with Jimmy, both combined to 52 goals scored by Chelsea that season ( eidur scored 23 goals )

- Eidur also was part of Jose Mourinho's squad who lifted EPL title for the first time in 2005 .

- Eidur scored 78 goals in 6 season with Chelsea in 263 matches ( 1 in 3 goal ratio )

- was sold to Barcelona in 2006

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3) Mario Stanić

from Parma £5,600,000

( ATTACKing MIDFIELDER )

2000-2004

- Vialli's 3rd signing that summer.

- scored on his debut against WestHam that was voted as PL Goal Of The Season by MOTD

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4) Carlo Cudicini

from Castel di Sangro Free

(THE MOST LOYAL GK IN OUR HISTORY )

2000-2009

- Chelsea's main GK after the end of era of de Goey , Cudicini was voted Chelsea Player of The Year in 2001/2002 by the fans

- .Cudicini also was recognized as PL Best GK in 2002/03 and won PL Goalkeeper of The Season award

- Cudicini was a superb penalty-stopper, in 2006 alone he saved 6 penalties . among his victims of his ability was Gary McAllister, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Thierry Henry

- he was our most loyal GK , joined at 27 years old and stayed for 9 seasons till 36 years old .

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5) Winston Bogarde

from Barcelona Free

( WORST SIGNING IN CFC HISTORY)

2000-2004

- Signed on Free Transfer from Barcelona by Chelsea's director of football but was unwanted by Ranieri who demanded Bogarde to be sold after just weeks arrived.

- Chelsea was reported to pay around 40K per week ( 15 mill Euro in 4 years period ) to Bogarde.

- even though he was publicly being told he was unwanted at Chelsea and even was forced to train with youth squad in order to force him out, Bogarde insisted on commiting to his 4 years contract

- similar treatment was applied to Malouda who refused to move in his final season when he was more prolific and had more contributions than Willian , who lots of fans considered giving him 2-3 years contract extension.

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6) Jesper Grønkjær

3from Ajax £7,800,000

( BILLION POUND GOAL SCORER)

2000-2004

- even though Jesper managed only 11 goals for us, 1 of his goal was THE MOST VITAL IN THE HISTORY OF CHELSEA

- In Chelsea's final league game of the season versus Liverpool in season 2002/03, Gronkjaer assisted opening goal and scored the winning goal that propelled Chelsea to qualify to play in UEFA Champions League on next season ( vital factor that lured Roman to the Bridge who earlier rumoured to choose Tottenham.

- remembering the goal , he said , " I remember the goal very well. I was on the right wing when we got a throw-in, but instead of passing I cut in from the right and beat three or four defenders before sticking it in the other corner. It was a nice feeling, and a good reward for a great season."

NEW MANAGER

CLAUDIO RANIERI

( 18 September 2000 to 30 May 2004 )

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- First Ranieri's contribution to Chelsea was his signing of Frank Lampard in 2001 and Jesper Gronkjaer who scored vital goal in 2003 that led Roman Abramovich to Chelsea.

- During season 2002/03, Ranieri got "tinkerman" nickname due to his preference to rotate players frequently , Ranieri also developed John Terry, Robert Huth and Charlton Cole.

- After Roman tookover in 2003, rumours circulating that Roman wanted to replace Ranieri with England's manager, Sven Goran Errikson

- However, Ranieri stayed put and was given £120 million transfer kitty ( the biggest in world history at that time ) and he spent them so well on Damien Duff, Claude Makalele, Joe Cole, Wayne Bridge, Glen Johnson and 2 new star striker, Hernan Crespo and Adrian Mutu.

*** on that season, Chelsea beat Invincible's Arsenal at their home in quarter final of UEFA CL, but ended his first season as runner up to unbeaten Arsenal

- on 31 Mei 2004, Ranieri was sacked and was replaced by "you know who"-Jose Mourinho who just won CL with Porto to unleash a new glittering era of success for Chelsea.

- Ranieri will forever be remembered by fans for signing the Spine of the Guard of Chelsea that defined the glorious era in our history ( developing John Terry, purchase of Lampard,Makalele, Gallas, Joe Cole, Damien Duff and Wayne Bridge )

- Furthermore, he was the first person who identified Didier Drogba and Arjen Robben to be signed by Chelsea .




Chelsea v Manchester Utd Charity Shield August 2000
GOL 1 - DEBUT GOL JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK
GOL 2 - RARE GOL MARIO MELCHIOT



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